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It's not that difficult to put that to bed today. Did you receive some form of a Computer Engineering degree from an ABET institution (just using the U.S. for
by urda 10y ago
It's not that difficult to put that to bed today.
Did you receive some form of a Computer Engineering degree from an ABET institution (just using the U.S. for this example)? Congratulations you are an engineer.
Did you receive a Computer Science degree, Computer Information Systems degree, boot camp graduate, self taught or otherwise? Congratulations you are a developer.
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- jzymbaluk 10y agoBut what about an ABET-accredited Computer Science degree? Does that make me a Develogineer?
- trentmb 10y agoABET has separate accreditation for Computing and Engineering. http://www.abet.org/accreditation/ http://www.abet.org/accreditation/
- jedberg 10y agoSo you're saying you have to have a four year engineering degree to be an engineer, and you don't count a computer science degree? Did you know that MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard do not offer Computer Engineering degrees (only Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or EECS). Also you've completely discounted self taught practitioners, some of whom are often far more competent than people with actual Computer Engineering degrees. Hence, it really isn't "put to bed" yet.
- dhd415 10y agoCourse 6-3, the "computer science" major at MIT, is officially titled "Computer Science and Engineering". Maybe MIT 6-3 grads can call themselves both developers and engineers?
- danielweber 10y agoComputer Science and Engineering: https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/undergraduate-programs/course-6-3-computer-science-and-engineering https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/undergraduate-...
- jedberg 10y agoThat's a single course, not a degree.
- danielweber 10y agoThis was really annoying to go dig up in my attic, but I found it: http://i.imgur.com/eiF1INY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eiF1INY.jpg Did I say this was really annoying? Because it was. At least it wasn't as tacky as posting my diploma. Please don't tell people from MIT what MIT offers.
- jedberg 10y agoYou could have just linked to the website. :) I guess things have changed in 20 years. But really you only proved my point. OP said that a computer engineering degree makes you an engineer and a computer science degree makes you a developer. So what does a computer science and engineering major make you? My main point was you can't decide if someone is an engineer based on the name of the degree they were granted.